There were many questions regarding hair color that suits each type. Once I already made out general information on hair coloring

Let me repeat some general principles.

To color hair fit, it should be in harmony with our appearance and with the colors of the palette.
Those. it should suit us according to such characteristics as :
- lightness
- brightness
- temperature
- contrast

NВ - native hair color, as a rule - this is one of the colors of the palette. It can also be used to determine which similar shades can still be suitable. They are usually close.

For example, Soft Autumn. The natural hair color of this color can be from dark blond to dark reddish chestnut, through reddish and golden shades of brown. You can see it on the palette too.

However, not all types have such a wide variety of natural hair shades in the palette . Here, for example, a bright winter does not have many options - either very light blond, or hair approaching black - dark gray-brown, isser-black, dark brown and black. (As an option, dark red and blue-black are possible, but this one is no longer quite natural colors, so I haven’t marked them yet - although they are in the palette)

Therefore, if it will be difficult for you to figure out the palette (not all palettes have a sufficient number of suitable shades), let's try to figure out step by step what makes the hair color suitable or not.

I'll start with contrast
As we have already said, hair color by darkness is divided into 10 levels
Level 1 - black hair, 10 - platinum blond
+ 11 - gray hair


To make your hair color look natural, it should not differ from your native color in the dark by more than two shades. This rule applies to all types with rare exceptions.

The only exception - bright types - bright spring and bright winter. Due to the fact that they themselves are very contrasting, they can have both light and dark hair.

The rule "+\- 2 shades" just preserves the natural contrast of appearance (about the contrast of light and dark in appearance :)

Feature first darkness - the easiest to identify.
For clarity, I will give the scale again.

bright seasons can have light to medium light hair color - i.e. from light blond to light brown, with the exception, perhaps, very light, almost White color platinum - only suitable in a softened form, otherwise it is too bright. It is better to avoid dark hair.

Colors with a grayish tint are more suitable bright summer , and with yellowish - bright spring .

Approximate shades for light summer

Approximate shades for light spring

dark seasons more suitable colors medium to dark from light chestnut to black-brown and black

Tones with a reddish or golden hue are more suitable dark autumn, and black and ashy shades - dark winter

Approximate shades for dark autumn

Approximate shades for dark winter

bright seasons fit or dark hair (level 1-3(4)), or blonde hair (level (7)8-10) to maintain contrast. Black hair and platinum are more suitable for a bright winter, while lighter browns and darker blonde are more suitable for a bright spring.
For bright seasons also in The brightness characteristic is important - the hair color should be saturated, gray tones should be avoided.

For a bright winter

For a bright spring

Mild seasons most suitable colors in the middle of the scale - from 4 (chestnut) to 7 (medium blond) . Dark "velvet" soft seasons can dye hair into darker tones However, in any case, avoid bright blacks.

Asher tones are more suitable for a mild summer, and golden ones are more suitable for a mild autumn, although it is often difficult to determine the exact predominant shade in mild seasons by eye.

More for soft types the softness characteristic is important - the hair color should not be bright, it should contain grayish tones.

soft autumn

soft summer

cold seasons have bluish and grayish undertones at the base of hair color . Red tones should be avoided.

Cold winter is a contrasting season, she can have black, dark brown or grayish black hair, and light blond is also possible . - about the same colors as bright winter, just not as bright.

Cold summer - relaxed season, so in its colors there will be enough gray .Darkness ranges from blonde (7-8) to medium chestnut (4).

warm seasons based on hair color golden and copper undertone . Ash shades should be avoided.

Warm autumn - darker and softer season, she may have hair from dark reddish blond to dark chestnut, while the hair color is softened.

warm spring - lighter and brighter type. Her hair color suits her from blond to medium chestnut, while the hair color is quite bright.

For determining undertone hair colors there are special tables

Here is a table with examples, although some are slightly shifted in darkness - look at the darkness markings.

Those tones where more blue and gray are suitable cold and neutral-cold seasons
Those tones where there is more red and golden are suitable warm seasons and neutral warm
Neutral and beige tones suit everyone, but neutral seasons more than purely warm and cold.

And the last remaining characteristic - softness-brightness , which means the presence in the color gray.

Colors mild seasons must be greyish, natural . This effect is usually difficult to achieve with chemical paints.
Bright same seasons on the contrary, a large amount of gray in the hair should be avoided. They can afford bright and saturated colors hair dyes.

Of the remaining seasons, initially bright types - spring and winter (light and warm spring, cold and dark winter) have relatively bright hair color. In initially softened types - summer and autumn (light summer, cold summer, warm autumn and dark autumn), the hair color should be quite soft. Although for all these remaining 8 types, the brightness characteristic is not so important - they should stay somewhere in the middle, avoiding too bright and too soft shades.

When choosing hair dye, women usually pay attention to the hair color of the model that is shown on the package, then to the name of the dye, and at the very end to the numbers of the shade of the hair dye. And many do not pay any attention to it.

As a result, we bring home a package of paint with a beautiful color on the box and with an attractive name like “bitter chocolate” or “hazelnut”. But after dyeing, the paint does not live up to our expectations, because the shade is not at all like bitter chocolate.

I want to help all the girls who want to choose the right paint and choose the shade they expect to see on themselves.

To do this, first of all, you need to look not at the picture and not at the name of the paint, but at the shade numbers on the paint package.

The numbers on the package will tell you everything about the shade of paint, you just need to figure it out. What do they mean. In this article I will talk about the universal numbering of shades of hair dye, and explain what each of the numbers means.

The whole range of shades of colors consists of 8 main rows:

0 - natural tones (green pigment)
1 - ash row (blue-violet pigment)
2 - matte row (green pigment)
3 - golden row (yellow-orange pigment)
4 - red row (copper pigment)
5 - mahogany row (red-violet pigment)
6 - purple row (blue-violet pigment)
7 - havana (red-brown pigment, natural base)

The paint number usually consists of 3 digits.
The first is the depth of tone (from 1 to 10)
The second is the main shade
The third is an additional shade (it is usually 50% of the main one)The natural range of paints usually consists of 10 primary colors:

1.0 black color
2.0 very dark brown
3.0 dark brown
4.0 brown
5.0 light brown
6.0 dark blond
7.0 blond
8.0 light blond
9.0 very light blonde
10.0 pastel blonde

In the given example, the shade number consists of two digits, which indicates that there are no additional shades in these colors. When choosing a paint, you need to be guided by your color type and, on this basis, choose the depth of tone. For example, if your tone is 7, then it is advisable for you to choose a paint with the first number 7. Otherwise, the resulting tone may be too dark or light.

To make it clearer, let's take a look at specific example. Take a very common paint color that manufacturers refer to as "mocha".

Usually its number is 5.75. The first number indicates that the main color 5 is light brown. The main shade is 7, that is, it belongs to the havana series and contains a red-brown pigment. Additional shade 5 - indicates the presence of a red-violet pigment (mahogany series).

There is also a very convenient table, according to which it will be very easy to determine the color that will be obtained by mixing the main shades.

There are a lot of subtleties in hair coloring in Saaaam. From the assessment of the current color and the selection of suitable dyes, to the assessment of the condition of the hair and the selection of suitable dyes. And yes, I didn’t describe myself, the selection of suitable dyes is a very important task. For it is they who determine not only the final result immediately after, but also the effect over time.

the most correct thing is to go to the master (such a good Master) and dye your hair well right away, and at the same time consult and determine the key points for yourself. It will be especially interesting for those who have decided to dye their hair for the first time in their lives. Although simple monochromatic colorings are quite easy to succeed on their own, but if for the first time in your life, if you need some kind of complex shade, and even if the hair is weakened, if you need a radical change in color, and if it doesn’t work out well from home experiments, then it’s better to go to the Master .

The difficulty for Russia is that not all masters are truly Masters. It seems to them that they have learned to breed a supra and run it through their hair with a brush and that’s all at once - you can cut your grandmother. Therefore, we also have white washcloths and yellow blondes and green brunettes and red-haired ones. And the master (felt pen) is standing, spreading his handles - how is it, I did everything according to the rules, maybe you, dear client, have hormonal changes? the client firmly believes that a decently dressed girl in a decent place for $ 200 cannot but know how, so she honestly looks for excuses for such a nice girl - yes, maybe hormonal. (hormones, such hormones). This is what I heard with my own ears. The main thing is that everyone is happy with this explanation. And the master doesn’t blow his mustache, since she got such a hormonal client (probably through one she has), and the client is quite Happy, not purple, just think - yellow, there are many of them.

I also heard (and more than once) when they start selling a confused yellow blonde in a conspiratorial whisper that de "paint is not very real, but the director only allows you to work on such, but I know one paint and one place, everything is very professional, yes, yes, the most pro-fess-o-nal-no-e ... and I could buy you" At such moments I want to answer, so that in that very place there would also be brains I bought it, or I would go somewhere to learn.

and also, drop dead distribution, in Russia for sure, has the format - Leeeen, what kind of paint do you have? What number? great color, i want one too. And I don't care the button accordion, from which source this color is obtained. If it doesn't work out, it means - "didn't take it". Or - "after all, the paint is not very good."

and so - the selection of the dye can not be treated with disdain. And you should always consider your own source.
I told a lot of theories here - Although there the emphasis is primarily on the features of clarification.
I will repeat some points.

since for some reason it was decided to dye the hair on their own, when choosing a paint, you need to decide on your original color, i.e. determine the level

Levels natural colors only 10 hairs.
1 - black
2 - dark dark chestnut
3 - dark chestnut
4 - chestnut
5 - light chestnut
6 - dark blond
7 - blond
8- light blond
9 - very light blond
10 - very light light blond

Although you can find a classification of 11 and 12 levels, and the names of the colors may change. So light blond can be called blond, and chestnut brown. Unfortunately, even here there is no general such manual to which one could refer. 10 is accepted, but 11 and 12 are not forbidden either. And how to call ... to a greater extent it is determined by the environment or habits.

I also note that among paints and dyes, generally 7 natural.

The thing is that 1, 2 and 3 for the human eye are almost indistinguishable in hue. And usually it is level 2 that is used as the darkest, but the difference between 2 and 3 is not very visible. therefore, immediately 4. As for the lightest, then 10 is practically white and it is believed that these are exactly natural, i.e. in nature, i.e. without staining, there are no such whites (approximately albino format or good discoloration, if visually). Therefore, NATURAL (I’ll even write this term in caps) in everyday life is not even 10, but only 7. And the first step to select the right dye is to determine the level of lightness on a scale of natural colors. This is also called "base definition". because we always need to understand what we will start from.

the most interesting moment in a practical sense - how to determine?

Probably everyone who dyes their hair has seen books with hairs at their master or on the shelf of a store. about like this


in a cursory search, Yandex-photo did not give me pictures without cosmetics in the foreground. The books are similar.

and there are also such "panicles" -probes

Here and there is what we are looking for.
tone designation without additional letters and numbers. Without the use of various additional pigments. Names from the natural list. On panicles-probes on the handle of the designation, and in books near the curl, for example, in the picture on the left, you can see slender rows of strands, where numbers are written large without additional designations (while at the bottom left, in the middle and top right you can see that the numbers with dots and additional numbers Formally - natural shade 7.0, 6.0, shade with pigment 7.4, 6.33, etc. - for example and from the head)
what needs to be done is to attach your strand to natural strands and compare in terms of lightness. Dark, darker, lighter, lighter, etc.

the shade will interfere with this very much. For example, ash blond or chocolate brown or copper, etc. Hue is the direction of the color, natural tone is the level of lightness.

Look at the picture


circled the shades of level 5 with a red ribbon. Light brown or light chestnut in words. The natural level of lightness in this palette is called 5.0 medium brown (in the middle). Shades at the same level are 5.3 (left) and 5.4 on top. Visual perception is very disturbed by these shades, for example, redhead usually looks brighter and seems lighter. Ash (not here) also seems lighter. But copper (which is also red) may seem darker.
So the lightness level (base) is taken into account without shades. It is, of course, difficult to immediately clap and determine, we tend to consider our color lighter than it actually is. Because we often have shades. The most common natural levels in Russia are actually 4-6, but many tend to define their native fifth level as at least seventh)

to determine, you can use computer graphic editors, for example, it seems to me that you can compare even in numerical values. But on the other hand, it also seems to me that with real panicles or curls it’s just more visual. Although I understand that there are people who do not distinguish between warm-cold colors and I fully admit that it is difficult to see the level of lightness without taking into account the shade of the hair.

Why so much complexity?
in order to correctly understand what kind of paint is needed.

as it usually happens - girls wander among the shelves with boxes of household paints and look out for different girls in the pictures. And they do not pay attention to the back of the box at all. nor on the encoding (numbers with the paint number). As a result, "the paint does not take" or "after all, the paint is not very good."

on the other hand, if we go from determining our base level of lordship, then we may well apply all our knowledge. Namely.
a girl in nature has a 6th level, and she chose a pretty girl with number 9. So the girl needs to understand that from her 6th level she will have to lighten up by 3 levels. Can paint do it? turn the box over and see

a small square on top - the original base color level, but not a number, but a description of the color, at the bottom in a large rectangle - the result of staining. In addition, I draw your attention to the fact that the final shade will be obtained only when the original base is of a natural color, without shades (i.e. not ashy, not mahogany, not copper, etc.)

those. knowing our initial baseline, we can understand whether it will “take” and even suggest what difficulties we may encounter (for example)

On the other hand, it is quite possible that we do not want lightening at all and, as a result, additional efforts to eliminate unwanted shades. We may want to change slightly, within our level. And even more so - we find out our natural level and choose dyes only among the level we need. There were 6.0 natures, we are looking for something from the 6.1 series with a touch.

About the shades and numbers after the dot, you should probably write a separate post. now I would like to pay attention to the fact that the numbers on the boxes and the back of the box are a great help for predicting the result.

Separately, I repeat - all this coding in numbers and designation in words- It not GOST for everyone! variations are possible in different directions. Therefore, every self-respecting manufacturer and store has books with curls or panicles-samplers that are needed to determine the natural level of lightness of the source, to determine the base. Base levels don't vary much among manufacturers, usually by 1 digit at the most, but the names can be quite confusing. Let's say fair-haired for one manufacturer can mean exactly fair-haired, and for another it can be called a blond. Therefore, when looking for options among different manufacturers, be sure to check with the coordinate system (i.e., all with the same panicles or curls).

Blondes don't go unnoticed. At all times they were considered the most attractive and charming. It is not surprising that the popularity of the blonde does not go away. Classic natural, platinum, strawberry, caramel, honey.

The choice of shade depends on many factors: eye color, skin color, general color type.

How to get cool blonde

When it comes to getting a clean blonde, you can’t do without clarification with powder. The brightening composition creates a clean, light canvas. The canvas is tinted in the desired shade.

For clarification, take 6% and 3% oxidizer. One part of the powder is diluted with a 3% oxidizing agent. This solution lightens the root zone. Another, 6% - to lighten the length. Why different percentage? More heat on the scalp. Lighting is better. If we apply a solution with a large percentage throughout the volume, we get different background clarification. The roots are light yellow. The length is orange-yellow.

Lightening Law- apply brightening powder in sufficient quantity. Do not smear, put in in large numbers. Part will be absorbed into the hair, part will work on the surface. The discoloration will be even. We get a light yellow background.

After applying the mixture, wait 20 minutes, visually observe. Rinse off with a deep cleansing shampoo. We align the hair structure with a balm, a mask to align the structure.

Mandatory step - toning. Toning fills the voids after discoloration.

1. We take two dyes in a 1: 1 ratio - 10.12 or 10AV with 8.2 or 8P. Mix with 3% oxidant. We apply to the root zone.
2. For length - 10.12 or 10AV with 3% activator in a ratio of 1:1.
3. Holding time from 15 to 35 minutes. Depends on porosity - the more, the less time excerpts.
   Wash off the dye with shampoo for colored hair. Apply color balm.

Shades of blond in the names of paints

Often they are called very poetically. Sunny, golden, sandy, caramel, frosty, icy, honey, amber, glowing, natural, grey, pearl. We often come across such definitions. The interpretation can be very subjective. Not necessarily in line with our expectations.

When we already know what the color spectrum (hue) is, let's check what can be hidden under these beautiful names. What can you expect from them.

Let's add separate terms to divide the shades into warm, cold, neutral:

• neutral(, sandy, natural)
• warm(golden, solar, copper, amber, glowing, honey, caramel)
• cold(grey, shimmer/pearl/purple, icy, frosty, cold, platinum)

Sand- golden gray, golden gray (caramel blonde) or pearl. Depending on the brand, it can be beige (for example 9.13) or warm (for example 9.31 and 9.23).

natural blond- in theory it should be neither warm nor cold. In fact, it can be both cold (9) and warm (9NB) or intense (9NI) - with an olive sheen.

This includes even natural, for example 7.0 Garnier Color Sensation. Very dark, with brown tones. It is important not to apply it to heavily bleached hair. We can get a greenish, earthy color).

sunny, golden- yellow base

Pearl- mostly purple, ash. Contains a lot of blue dye (blue-gray, gray-green). Cold is a combination of blue and purple pigments.

frosty- common terms for cold shades like /21 or /12.

Copper, amber and fire- warm blond, based on orange (7.4 or 8.44). Honey is often combinations of gold and copper, copper with a dominant nature (eg 8.304, 8.04) or gold (eg 8.3).

Red blond, for example 7.6 and 8.66 - intense red.

It is important to understand that the most important are the numeric characters. The terms used by the manufacturers can only direct and, together with the beautiful hair color of the model shown on the package, make us pay attention to this pack.

natural blonde

A shade marked “natural” is natural and organic. Pure blonde shade. Natural tone is not striking. Natural gradation from dark roots to light ends. Suitable for girls whose natural hair color is close to light shades. For those who have light light brown color hair.

Garenier Olia 110, Igora Royal New 9-0, Igora Royal Hightlifts 10-0, Igora Royal Fashion Light L-00, Londa Professional 12/03.

Cold blonde

Cold blonde is the ultimate dream of many girls. Color is hard to come by. Clean, without a hint of yellowness. Gives the impression of coldness, often referred to as icy. It is chosen by women whose color type is also cold. It's about about color types Winter and Summer.

You can get a cool blond on your hair thanks to the colors: Pallete Persistent cream paint 12, Garenier Color Sensation 10.1, Pallete: Color and Nutrition c12.

Ashen

Ash blonde belongs to light shades. A distinctive feature is a grayish ash haze. Looks stylish and natural. Ash goes to girls with a cold color type.

Look for it from the following manufacturers: Garenier Olia 10.1, Londa Professional 12/1, Koleston Perfekt Innosense 7/1, Princess Essex Estel Professiolal 10/1, Pallete: C9 Persistent Cream Color, Palette Salon Colors 10-2, Palette Phytolinia 219.

Platinum

Popular shade of blonde. Platinum - expensive and stylish. The most capricious tone. It's hard to achieve. Provides for the presence stylish hairstyle — straight caret, bob-car. It looks ugly on unkempt hair. Platinum belongs to the cold color scheme. Looks at women with delicate pinkish skin with gray or blue eyes. It is contraindicated for swarthy girls.

A platinum shade can be obtained thanks to the following paints: Garenier Color Naturales 111, Princess Essex Estel Professiolal 10/0, Palette Salon Colors 9.5-1.

strawberry blonde

The shade is finicky and not suitable for everyone. It has been very popular in recent years. It looks like a blonde with a slight peach-pink haze. It will look best on girls with fair, porcelain skin. FROM green eyes. Strawberry blonde looks luxurious, attracts everyone's attention.

You will find this color from the following manufacturers: Loreal Sublime Mousse 822, Indola Professional Blonde Expert 1000.32, Krasa Faberlik 8.8.

pearl blonde

Pearl blonde is a beautiful, stylish shade. It has a slight pearly sheen. Belongs to cold shades. Suitable for women with the color type Summer and Winter.

The following paints will help you get a similar hair color: Garenier Color Naturales 112, Princess Essex Estel Professiolal 10/8, Pallete: Persistent cream paint A 10, Syoss Professional Performance 9-5.

wheat blond

Looks soft and natural. Has a light brown undertone. Wheat belongs to the warm series. Suitable for owners of dark, olive skin. Fits well on light blond, medium Brown hair.

To get a wheaten blonde, use one of the following colors: Garenier Color Naturales 8, Princess Essex Estel Professiolal 9/3, Inoa 9.31, Revlon Colorsilk 74.

caramel blond

Caramel Blonde is a subtle mixture of yellow and brown. It has a hint of burnt sugar. A distinctive feature is a reddish undertone. May be golden or reddish. Harmonizes with olive, golden skin, brown, green-brown eyes.

To make your hair look like sweet caramel, use the following colors: Syoss Professional Perfomance 7-8, Wella Coleston Perfekt 9/03, Garenier Color Naturales 6.34.

Beige blonde

Natural is a rarity. Soft, light, slightly muted. Has some resemblance to light blond. The last one is darker. Looks beautiful on Slavic girls. It goes well with a cold color type. Helps to make the face look young and fresh. The shade is recommended for those whose natural color is dark blond or reddish.

To dye your hair beige, use one of the following colors: Igora Royal New 9-4, Pallete: Persistent cream paint B9, Palette: Fitolinia 254, Londa Color 38.

honey blond

Intense yellowish golden color. It looks like freshly harvested honey. Honey-colored hair is not for everyone. Honey blonde looks in combination with peach, beige skin, brown, dark blue, green eyes. For girls with a cold color type of appearance, it is absolutely contraindicated. Honey is not recommended if there is an expressive blush on the cheeks. Emphasizes it even more.

golden blonde

Exquisite light shade. Noticeable, draws attention. Belongs to warm tones. Suitable for women of warm color type - Autumn and Spring. It is combined with yellowish, swarthy skin, brown, green eyes.

Golden blonde is represented by the following color numbers: Palette: Fitolinia 460, Wellaton 9-3.

What shade will we get

When choosing a paint in a store, pay attention to the name of the color, the photo of the model shown on the pack. What do the symbols and numbers mean? For example 9.21 or H8 applied by manufacturers? Pay attention to them? Of course yes! Those awkward numbers/letters are the most important. They will tell the whole truth about the chosen dye.

Color levels

Let's start with color levels, with levels of brightness and darkness. The number at the beginning of the character informs us of this. Placed before a comma, period, slash. The scale starts from black, ends with super light tones.

2 / black

3 / dark brown

4 / medium brown

5 / light brown

6 / dark blond

7 / medium blond

8 / blond

9 / very light blonde

10 / very light blonde

11

12 / blond special (platinum)

Color directions

It is important to pay attention to the number after the comma, period, slash. This is a color tone. Depending on the brand, it is indicated by numbers or letters.

Separation of color directions (blond):

neutral(natural, beige),

warm(gold, copper, red),

cold(grey, shining/pearl, purple, silver, platinum).

Numerical and letter marking:

/ 0 - natural (letters N, NB, NN, NI or without a digit after a comma / dot / slash)

/ 1 - gray (A)

/ 2 - shining / pearl, purple (P, V, 6, 8, 89)

/ 03 or / 13 or / 31 - beige (B, GB)

/ 3 - gold (G, H)

/ 4 - copper (K, H)

/ 5 - the Red tree

/ 6 - red (R)

/ 7 - matte (brown)

If there are two numbers after the dot / comma / slash. For example 11.21 - we are dealing with a double shade. The first tone predominates (in the given example it is purple or 2). In the case of two identical numbers - 11. 11, it is read that there is an increase in color intensity. In this case, double, intense grey. Among the alphabetic characters:

NA– natural gray
NB– natural beige
ITD- natural pearls
GB- golden beige
KN– natural
VR- purple red

Sometimes the paint manufacturer does not use a dot, comma, slash. Garnier Color Naturals 111. The color is called super-bright blonde. We can put a dot after the first two digits. We get the brightness level 11. The third digit 1 is a gray tone. A cool shade that neutralizes warm tones.

9NB is a very light, natural beige and 11.11 is a super-bright, intense gray blonde.

Choosing the right dye is important to getting a beautiful new color. Choose gray pigments for the persistent natural pigment pheomelanin. This is when the tone turns into a reddish tint, shortly after staining.

If the hair is very dark (level 4-5), tends to appear copper or "rusty" - a cool tone is needed. Choose a super-bright dye (level 11 or 12) with a shade of gray (/1) or double gray (/11) .

When applying such an intense gray, ash (eg 11.11) on dark natural hair, we will not get a bluish-steel lightness from the level 11 indicated on the package. We will only cool down the target background to get a more natural end effect.

Super lightening colors (levels 11 and 12) are combined with higher concentrations of oxidizers - 9 or 12%. They allow you to lighten natural hair by 4-5 levels. Creates a very light result. But this applies only to the natural base, not previously dyed.

I think that each of us has come to this moment - when you get tired of constantly going to a manicure / pedicure, to a beautician or a hair stylist. And not even because of employment, but simply because of the lack of funds for all these activities. I personally also have a fear of failure: it is not known what another, albeit a vaunted master, can do with you, especially in terms of hair coloring. My hair grows fast (pah-pah) and I took it out Last year formula for the perfect home coloring, which is cheap and cheerful - but in reality cheap and fun certainly! This option is very good both as an age-related staining with the rapid growth of gray hair, and as a non-ageing one - to elegantly refresh your hair. natural color hair without any cunning strands, shatush, balayage and just do it. So what we need:

1. Determining your color type according to my system is important, because you have to choose the paint yourself in the store and think about what pigments you need in the end.
2. Assess the lightness of your natural hair color
3. Read mine on what the number on a pack of paint means
4. And you still need help faithful friend or mothers (or whom you can trust with your precious hair?); also, everything you need for high-quality home dyeing can be purchased at the same Auchan (or another large supermarket) - brush bowls, clips for strands, a cape (!) And comfortable thin gloves (those that are in the paint are pointless to use - we all know this )

And now from words to deeds! We will not go far, I will tell you about my experience of staining. Lightness of mine natural hair- confident 5, and the color is not very expressive, it's not even chestnut, but some kind of gray-chestnut. And given my color type Chestnut Autumn, this same 5 is not too refreshing for me. Also, my hair contains red pigment, which comes out in general with any coloring (even if you take the so-called “zero” paint without pigments). I take paint 6.23 - and I get a lively light chestnut with a golden redhead and at the same time with a barely noticeable beautiful difference in the strands, because there is still a slight uneven clarification. And what is especially dear to me: with this hair color, I can walk without makeup at all (!), because the face is fresher, the features are brighter and, in general, the soft contrast that I need is created.

Perfect hair color obtained with paint 1 tone lighter than your natural hair and with additional color pigments that will give those very coveted iridescent highlights.

Why 1 tone lighter? Because in this case, the paint gently brightens your natural hair base and, as it were, color pigments are already laid on top of this, which look brighter on a slightly lightened base than if you take tone-on-tone paint in lightness. Also, lightening one level creates strands of different colors, and the coloring turns out not like a wig, but more natural, nobler and more expensive, finally, as if it were a salon coloring, and not some homemade one (let it be our secret). Moreover, it is the difference of one tone that grows back more correctly, the roots turn out a little darker - and this is better than tone-on-tone coloring, in which the roots often look more gray (and visually lighter) than regrown dyed hair.

Exception are cases of FZ and NZ with a very light hair base for these color types 6 (in fact, a fairly common occurrence in winter color types!), Which can also burn out with light strands - obviously you should not lighten here, tone-on-tone coloring with additional color pigments as desired.

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As an example, consider paint GARNIER- the palettes are large, but I want to note the very ideal shades for each color type. I advise you not to peer into the tone of the hair in the picture, but to trust the paint number more, because it is it that more accurately reflects the future hair color.

Very dark hair (base 3-4)

Frankly black hair is actually difficult to meet. I already joked in our VK group that only Indians or cats have black hair (!), and when girls dye their hair in a categorical dark color, it often looks like a wig. Therefore, for very dark hair, I recommend level 4 and 5 paint, but not darker. You will have a beautiful highlight, and it will turn out that way, but it is clearly not worth darkening even more.

Brown hair (base 5)

Such shades are already more common - quite often brown hair of different color types has different color highlights. For example, winter FZ and NZ chestnuts will have more variety and color than the grayer OL and KO chestnuts. And for base 5, level 6 paints are the best suited.

Brown (base 6)

And this is the most fertile base for any type of coloring, because light chestnut is very plastic. universal color, which can be diverted into a wide variety of tones without obvious harm to the hair. Light chestnut is found in most color types - LV, ZV, PL, OL, KO, FZ, NZ (except for Copper Autumn, of course, whose hair coloring is a completely different story). So, base 6 is taken to the shades of level 7.

Brown hair and blond (base 7-8)

Undoubtedly mistresses blonde hair- These are primarily spring and summer color types. When some Night Winter tells me that she has blond hair, I just want to exclaim from the bottom of my heart: what kind of blond they are when they have a gorgeous light chestnut!). So excuse me, but only LV, ZV, PL, OL have blond hair, there is no other way. And a clear blond is an obvious spring, mostly Lilac. Below are recommendations only for LV and ZV, because in the case of PL and OL, becoming a blonde is better with the help of a non-uniform light staining, but due to light strands (and this is already in the salon after all). We paint the “spring” base 7 and 8, respectively, with shades 8 and 9.

And here are some star examples of how cool it is to be 1 tone lighter:

Important note- default paint kits include 6% oxide, because this level of oxide is necessary to cover gray hair. In the case when you have a little gray hair, you can use 3% oxide - it is easy to purchase it yourself or check with your hairdresser (if, for example, you come to the salon with your paint). Oxide 3% reduces the damage from staining, and your durability will be about a month anyway. And do not forget that dyed hair needs to be pampered in every possible way with masks for hair restoration).

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